Folkways / A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals

by William Graham Sumner

[512] Suetonius, Caligula, 27.

[513] Cod. Theod., IX, 9.

[514] Cod. Justin., I, 9.

[515] Cod. Theod., VI, 2.

[516] In 1899 a German officer was condemned to death by a court martial for killing a half-breed subordinate with great torture. The emperor reduced the punishment to fifteen years' imprisonment, and in May, 1902, granted the prisoner a full pardon.—Assoc. Press, December 24, 1899; N. Y. Times, May 24, 1903.

[517] Lecky, Morals, I, 407.

[518] Cod. Justin., I, 5, sec. 4.

[519] Iroquois Book of Rites, 97.

[520] Elsberg, Elizabeth Bathory.

[521] 1 Cor. v. 1; 1 Tim. i. 20; Gal. i. 8.